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Putting out fire after fire, or why Bulgaria has a hard time dealing with natural disasters
The country needs an aerial system for firefighting, but it has failed to buy even a single helicopter in the past three decades

Top 25 agricultural machinery dealers increase revenue by a third in 2022
All the importers in the top 25 have registered a profitable year

The week: The trick with the migrant scare
Don’t let the news fool you, How flat should a tax be, and a Bishop dreams of heading the Church

The week: Brace, the rotation is coming
The Suddenly-important Ministry, More Russian spies pop up, and Meta buys a company

The week: Going nuclear (again)
The new Bulgarian mega-dream, eurozone delayed, Nexo comes back with a vengeance

A smuggler for a day: how migrants pass through Bulgaria
The story of a driver who transported refugees via the black market in Telegram

The week: 3 focal points to watch out for post-Schengen
Bulgaria gets a half-Schengen, Peevski gets a half party, and something awful is going on in the police

Rose oil is on its way to becoming a medicinal ingredient
This will open up a new niche and market for the sector, which is currently feeling insecure and still risks damage from controversial European regulations

Bulgaria’s least indebted 50 companies in 2022
The average debt-to-asset ratio remains near 50%, narrowing slightly

The week: It’s GERB’s election to lose. Again.
Who’s going to run the cities, is there a Recovery Plan at all, what is a Russian-born oligarch doing in Plovdiv

Build the damn roads. Build the damn railways. Do something, for Christ’s sake
Build the roads, search for gas in the sea, a Ukrainian hit-list and Lukoil is in for some trouble

Angela Rodel: "The past can become dangerous when it becomes collectivized, shallow and sold back as propaganda"
The translator of the award-winning novel by Georgi Gospodinov talks linguistics, the dangers lurking in the collective past and how Bulgaria has changed in the past 20 years

Bulgarian economy: the start of a slowdown
The main growth drivers reached an inflection point in Q1 2023

The week: A coalition is (still) born, a mobster is killed, and a Booker is won
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The week: The sheriff is in town, where does all the asphalt go, and Telus won’t tell on us anymore
A thunder in the sky of dust

Will the European Commission ban rose oil? Not really
A planned regulation on essential oils in the EU revived unjustified fears of yet another "European conspiracy" against a sensitive Bulgarian product

Euroins’ woes in Romania
Eurohold Bulgaria, the parent company of insurer Euroins Romania, has said officials of Romania’s Financial Supervisory Authority (ASF) might be involved in a coordinated raiding attack on its business